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q-series with applications to combinatorics, number theory, and physics : a conference on q-series with applications to combinatorics, number theory, and physics, October 26-28, 2000, University of Illinois / Bruce C. Berndt, Ken Ono, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ; 291.
- Contemporary mathematics, 0271-4132 ; 291
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- q-series--Congresses.
- q-series.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society, [2001]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The subject of $q$-series can be said to begin with Euler and his pentagonal number theorem. In fact, $q$-series are sometimes called Eulerian series. Contributions were made by Gauss, Jacobi, and Cauchy, but the first attempt at a systematic development, especially from the point of view of studying series with the products in the summands, was made by E. Heine in 1847. In the latter part of the nineteenth and in the early part of the twentieth centuries, two Englishmathematicians, L. J. Rogers and F. H. Jackson, made fundamental contributions. In 1940, G. H. Hardy described what we now call Ramanujan's famous $ 1\psi 1$ summation theorem as ``a remarkable formula with many parameters.'' This is now one of the fundamental theorems of the subject. Despite humble beginnings,the subject of $q$-series has flourished in the past three decades, particularly with its applications to combinatorics, number theory, and physics. During the year 2000, the University of Illinois embraced The Millennial Year in Number Theory. One of the events that year was the conference $q$-Series with Applications to Combinatorics, Number Theory, and Physics. This event gathered mathematicians from the world over to lecture and discuss their research. This volume presents nineteen of thepapers presented at the conference. The excellent lectures that are included chart pathways into the future and survey the numerous applications of $q$-series to combinatorics, number theory, and physics.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Program for q-series piano recital""; ""Congruences and conjectures for the partition function""; ""MacMahon's partition analysis VII: Constrained compositions""; ""Crystal bases and q-identities""; ""The Bailey-Rogers-Ramanujan group""; ""Multiple polylogarithms: A brief survey""; ""Swinnerton-Dyer type congruences for certain Eisenstein series""; ""More generating functions for L-function values""; ""On sums of an even number of squares, and an even number of triangular numbers: an elementary approach based on Ramanujan's 1Ï?1 summation formula""
- ""Completeness of basic trigonometric system in Lp""""The generalized Borwein conjecture. I. The Burge transform""; ""Mock v-functions and real analytic modular forms""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8218-7881-6
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